The Seabury – Western Art Gallery is accepting submissions of original fine art for mid-May-June-July 2008 show showcasing personal and communal transitions. Transitions engender growth and change. They challenge our assumptions about relationships, values and priorities. Some transitions occur within a religious or spiritual framework, some in a cultural context, while others happen in isolation. The artist should consider how transitions provide courage for the future and help celebrate the past. Themes may include but not limited to: journey, community, empowerment, struggle, liberation.

Artists may submit up to 10 slides or 300 dpi. jpgs and should include a list of slide or file descriptions with title of artwork, dimensions, date, format and price. Artists should also include a biography and artist statement.

Located on the North Shore of Chicago in the diverse and dynamic city of Evanston, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary is itself in the midst of a transition to offer more forward-looking theological education in a rapidly changing context. As it reinvents itself it seeks to partner with visual artists who can offer challenge and encouragement for transition through their work.

Deadline for submissions is March 31, 2008. There is a $15 entry fee. Submissions will be accepted through snail mail only and must include a SASE if you would like items returned. No e-mail submissions will be considered.

Upon acceptance, the gallery will negotiate delivery/pickup with the artist. Mail to: Seabury-Western Theological Seminary ATTN: Arts Coordinator, 2122 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL. 60201. For more information contact: Tyrone Fowlkes at 847.328.9300 or email: tyrone.fowlkes@seabury.edu.

The Gallery at St. John's is accepting original artwork in 2-dimensional media by men & women of all faiths.  February's theme is Amor Vincit Omnia (Love Conquers All).  For more information, e-mail artatstjohns@gmail.com to receive the prospectus.  Submit slides or digital files on CD by January 14th.  Artwork accepted must be received by January 30th.  Opening will be Saturday, February 2nd.  The exhibition will run until the end of February.  You may submit up to 4 works.  There is no entry fee.
To be considered for a solo show in 2008, please contact artatstjohns@gmail.com for more information.

New gallery space at St. John's in Kingston, New York, extends a Call for original artwork in all two-dimensional media by men & women all faiths that addresses this spiritual theme of Desert:

I made a journey through the desert of your love
Searching for some hint that you might join me.
I saw in every home I passed along the way
The corpses scattered of those who went before me.
- #1854: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

The deadline for submissions is Friday, December 14, 2007.  Artists may submit up to four works of art. Submissions can be either digital files on CD or slides. There is no entry fee.  Exhibition opens Saturday, January 5, 2008, and will run through the month of January, 2008.  For the prospectus, please email artatstjohns@gmail.com.

New gallery space at St. John's in Kingston, New York, extends a Call for original artwork in all 2-dimensional media by men & women all faiths that addresses this spiritual theme of Wating:
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet."
–Franz Kafka

The deadline for submission is Friday, November 16, 2007.  Artists may submit up to 4 works of art. Submissions can be either digital files on CD or slides. There is no entry fee.  Exhibition opens Saturday, December 1st & will run through the month of December, 2007.

The Anglican Communion seeks art from members of the Communion for its 2007 Christmas card.   The theme is Anything Advent, Christmas or Epiphany.  The deadline is July 7, 2007.  Send a copy of the original artwork (any genre) either by e-mail to jim.rosenthal@aco.org or by mail to Anglican Episcopal World, 16 Tavistock Crescent, London W11 1APUK.  A special prize will be awarded. 

If you are aware of opportunities for ECVA artists to submit their work, please let us know so we can pass it on to our readers.  Send Call information to communications@ecva.org for publication.  Many thanks for keeping all of ECVA informed.

A national juried exhibition sponsored by the Washington Theological consortium will be held October-December 2007. Work may include painting, printmaking, sculpture, and other media which engages the literal and metaphoric meanings inherent in that phrase which is so familiar to all who share the Bread and Cup of new life. The selected work will be exhibited in galleries or other appropriate spaces at member institutions of the Washington Theological Consortium including: John Leland Center For Theological Studies, Lutheran Theological Seminary At Gettysburg, Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School Of Christian Education, Virginia Theological Seminary, Washington Theological Union, Wesley Theological Seminary. The exhibition juror will be Theodore Prescott. Entries to be received by July 30, 2007. For additional information visit Call: Body of Christ or contact Deborah Sokolove, Curator, Dadian Gallery, 202-885-8674, email dsokolove@wesleyseminary.edu.